The Enlightenment Egg is the nineteenth and final egg in Egg, Inc., added in Version 1.8 along with the Universe Egg.
Boosts cannot be used on the Enlightenment Egg farm. Any boosts that were previously active will pause their timers. The exception being the video doubler, which will continue to work as normal.
Additionally, no Artifacts (except the Light of Eggendil) will work without Clarity Stones equipped. This means all common artifacts are useless on the Enlightenment Egg farm.
The amount of time to complete the Diamond Trophy varies depending on your level and artifacts, but a standard duration (assuming sufficient Habitats space and no helpful artifacts) is approximately 78 days. With a good Earning Bonus and Artifact set, the Diamond trophy can be earned in as little as 50 days.
While the Bronze, Silver, and Gold trophies are relatively easy to complete and can likely be achieved as soon as the Enlightenment Egg is unlocked, the Platinum trophy may require a little bit of prep work if your Earning Bonus is below 100q% (Petafarmer 1).
The Diamond trophy will require a considerable amount of preparation and should not be attempted without a significant amount of planning. Most players should not attempt the Diamond trophy with an earning bonus less than 100Q% (Exafarmer 1). Even then, most players will want to have an Earning Bonus of at least 1S% (Zettafarmer 2) and have high-level Artifacts before attempting to complete the Diamond trophy.
Strategy[]
The Enlightenment Egg is a 'challenge egg', with demanding goals but great rewards. As such, all of its trophies award Eggs of Prophecy which gives you a total of 21 eggs of prophecy.
Bronze, Silver, and Gold Trophies[]
The Bronze (1
), Silver (2), and Gold (3) Trophies are relatively easy to complete with little or no planning. Most players will complete these first three trophies as soon as the Enlightenment Egg is unlocked, earning 6Eggs of Prophecy, increasing your earning bonus by up to 77% - depending on your completed Epic Research. Completing these first three trophies will take most players approximately 3 days to complete. Once these first three trophies have been completed, players should leave the Enlightenment Egg farm until they are ready to attempt the last two trophies.
Platinum Trophy[]
The Platinum trophy (5) can be completed by most players who have an earnings bonus of 100q% (Petafarmer 1) or higher. Players below Petafarmer 1 may be able to earn the Platinum trophy with helpful artifacts and clarity stones (see below). Players with a sufficient earning bonus should be able to earn the Platinum trophy in approximately one week.
Diamond Trophy[]
The Diamond trophy (10) is significantly more difficult to complete than the previous four trophies. It will require considerable planning and preparation for all players. Players with an earning bonus less than 100S% (Yottafarmer 1) will require high-level artifacts and clarity stones to even attempt the challenge. Even with high-level artifacts and clarity stones, the Diamond trophy will be effectively impossible to complete with an earnings bonus less than 100Q% (Exafarmer 1).
The specific strategy to use will depend greatly on your earning bonus and available artifacts. Regardless of the strategy you pick, the basic premise is the same: create enough Habitat space to allow for 10 billion chickens. Habitat space can be created by a combination of Wormhole Dampening and Gussets. Once sufficient Habitat space has been created, it is only a matter of waiting until the trophy is completed - though certain Artifacts can speed up this process. If you do not have a high enough earning bonus to research Wormhole Dampening or do not have a high enough level Gusset with clarity stones, the trophy cannot be completed.
Regardless of the strategy used, all Artifacts will require Clarity Stones placed in their stone slots to function on an Enlightenment Egg farm, thus rendering common Artifacts useless. The only exception is the Light of Eggendil, which only works on Enlightenment and always at 100% effectiveness. Any stones slotted into a Light of Eggendril will also work at 100% effectiveness - but will not work on any other farm. Clarity Stones have no effect on the Light of Eggendril.
Clarity Stones grant an artifact a percentage of its base effectiveness. Under certain circumstances, this percentage can go above 100%. For example, the legendary Jeweled Gusset's base effect is a 25% increase in Habitat capacity. With one basic Clarity Stone (25% effectiveness), this means that 25% of the 25% Habitat capacity increase is applied to the Enlightenment Egg farm. In other words, 25% of 25% is 6.25% - so a legendary Jeweled Gusset with one basic Clarity Stone will increase Habitat capacity by 6.25%.
However, a legendary Jeweled Gusset slotted with 3 Eggceptional Clarity Stones (100% effectiveness each) would increase Habitat capacity by 25% times 300%, or a total of 75% - or 3 times the base rate of a legendary Jeweled Gusset.
The following chart can help you find the best strategy based on your current earning bonus and available artifacts. Start by selecting the column that matches your best Gusset. Then select the row based on your preference, Earning Bonus range, and best available Artifact. For example, if your best Gusset is a Jeweled Gusset with (at least) two Eggsquisite Clarity Stones, and your Earning Bonus is between 150s and 600s (roughly Zettafarmer 1), your best strategy is likely the Lunar Totem strategy.
image created by @EffectiveMess on Discord
All Strategies[]
Some general rules for all strategies:
- All Artifacts - except for the Light of Eggendril - will require Clarity Stones to work
- You can mix-and-match strategies. For example, you can use one strategy while online and another while offline.
- Use video doubler as much as possible
- Always use your best Puzzle Cube whenever you are paying for research.
- Line up your activity with Special Event whenever possible. For example, buy Habitats and vehicles when they are on sale, research when it is on sale, knock down drones during the drone events, etc.
Lunar Totem Strategy[]
The Lunar Totem strategy is considered an off-line strategy. This means that you will spend most of your time off-line, not actively running chickens or knocking down drones. You will only need to go to your farm to empty the silos, approximately once per day depending on your silo level. This strategy has several distinct advantages over the other strategies in that the off-line bonus from Lunar Totems applies even if your Habitats are full (as opposed to the Running Chicken bonus), and the Internal Hatchery rate is three times higher while off-line. The trade-off is the Lunar Totem strategy can be slower than other strategies.
The exact setup for the Lunar Totem strategy will depend on your available Artifacts and Clarity Stones, but will generally consist of your best Lunar Totem, Demeters Necklace, and Chalice - all slotted with your best Clarity Stones. Additionally, you will use your best Light of Eggendril, and most players will want to slot it with Life Stones to increase the internal Hatchery rate.
Whenever you pay for research, you will equip your best Puzzle Cube with your best Clarity Stones to reduce research costs as much as possible. This will be particularly important for more expensive research later in the process. Once you have paid for any research, you will switch back to your off-line Artifact set.
You will continue to run this setup for as long as possible until your Habitats are full, at which point you will switch over to your best Gusset, again with your best available Clarity Stones. Which Artifact you unequip when you add the Gusset will depend on your specific needs, but will likely be your Chalice.
Light of Eggendil Strategy[]
The Light of Eggendil strategy is similar in principle to the Lunar Totem strategy above except that you will also have an on-line set of Artifacts to leverage the Running Chicken bonus. The Light of Eggendil strategy can generate more Bocks faster than the Lunar Totem strategy, but requires your Habitats to not be full and sacrifices the three times off-line Internal Hatchery bonus while you are running chickens.
The basic premise is to equip your best Gusset, Light of Eggendil, Demeters Necklace, and Tungsten Ankh. If your Habitats are not full, you can also substitute the Gusset for another Artifact - such as the Vial of Martian Dust or Book of Basan - until your Habitats run out of space. You will then run chickens as much as possible to maximize your Running Chicken bonus while on-line.
Whenever you are off-line, you will use the Lunar Totem strategy above.
Drone Farming Strategy[]
Drone farming can be an effective strategy for players with high Earning Bonuses, particularly for farms with low population due to the way Farm Value is calculated. The basic premise of this strategy is to knock down drones to collect Bocks rewards. This strategy is particularly effective during the 4x drone events.
You will equip your best Gusset, Mercury's Lens, Neodymium Medallion, and Aurelian Brooch. If you Habitats are not full, you can substitute another Artifact - such as the Carved Rainstick - until your Habitats run out of space.
The most effective way to use this strategy is to use an auto-clicker app to "tap" the drones for you. Note that leaving your device on for extended periods of time could damage the screen, battery, or other components. If you go offline, use the Lunar Totem strategy above while offline.
Additional Information[]
The following graph details the amount of bocks needed to purchase the required levels of Wormhole Dampening research, according to your best available gusset:
Note: This graph assumes you own all 10 levels of the Lab Upgrade Epic Research, without any other research discounts.
Puzzle cube effect on Enlightenment can be calculated using the following chart:
Golden Egg drone farming[]
Because Clarity Stone effectiveness can go above 100%, if you can do so (for instance, slotting Eggsquisite Clarity Stones into a legendary Artifact's 3 slots), farming drones on this egg to earn Golden Eggs can be more lucrative than on any other egg. The recommended Artifacts for this are a Beak of Midas, Neodymium Medallion and an Aurelian Brooch; without the Pro Permit, the Beak of Midas and either of the other two (depending on which has a higher effective boost) works best.
This strategy is typically referred to as 'overclocking', and it becomes even more effective during a Generous Drones event.
This tool can help calculate the estimated Golden Egg gain from drone farming in a given timeframe based on your available Artifacts, including overclocking.
Community Made Challenges[]
The Enlightenment Egg, being a "Challenge Egg", has been the arena for many late game challenges for players with exceptionally high Earnings Bonuses, or players with exceptionally high amounts of free time on their hands. These challenges are often grindy, boring, and time consuming, however they are seen as impressive by the community.
Nobel Prize in Animal Husbandry[]
The Nobel Prize in Animal Husbandry, shortened to NaH, is a challenge for getting the most amount of chickens possibly on a farm (excluding the usage of any contract modifiers). To achieve it, one must purchase all 25 levels of Wormhole Dampening Research (and all other previous Hab Space research), and the player must have a legendary Tier 4 Gusset, slotted with 3x Tier 4 Clarity Stones. This increases the maximum hab space to 19.845 Billion Chickens. As of the 11th of June, 2024 there are 83 known completions of this challenge.
All Common Research Enlightenment[]
This challenge, as described by the name, is to complete all common research on the Enlightenment Egg. It is often abbreviated to ACRE. This challenge is very hard, and regarded by some to be the hardest challenge in the game. As of the 11th of June, 2024, there are 27 known completions of this challenge.
Hellkea[]
Hellkea is the evolution of the original "Eggkea" challenge, originating from the Cluckingham Palace coop group. The original challenge was to fill up 4 Eggkea habs without any research, meaning that one had to run chickens manually to fill up the habs. This was made obsolete with the addition of the Dilithium Bulb in update 1.27. There were 8 known completions of this challenge before it closed.
In response to this, the Hellkea challenge was made by user shadowzedge (668675549975019533) from Cluckingham Palace, as Boosts cannot be used on the Enlightenment Egg. The challenge required one to fill up Habs on Enlightenment without any research whatsoever. Artifacts are allowed, but all artifacts other than the Titanium Actuator are useless. There are currently 2 known completions of this challenge (well, 5, with the other three being completions of Z-Hellkea as mentioned below, i.e. without actuators).
On the main Egg, Inc. discord server, the challenge was split into Hellkea and Z-Hellkea. Hellkea was made so that only IHR related research was banned, while Z-Hellkea was made so that all research was banned (just like the original Palace version), and all artifacts are also banned. There are currently 11 known completions of Egg, Inc. discord Hellkea, while there are 3 known completions of Z-Hellkea.
Z-Challenges[]
Z-Challenges are challenges either made by or inspired by ZeiramX (173260635415642113), a player famous for putting themselves through very painful challenges for the fun of it.
Z-EnD (Zeiram's rules for the Enlightenment Diamond Trophy)[]
First this is all with no artifacts. Then you must purchase every research that is below Wormhole Dampening 17's price, and you must buy all Wormhole Dampening levels (17 of them) with no common research discount event
Z-NAH (Zeiram's rules for the Nobel Prize in Animal Husbandry)
This is all with no artifacts, until you get to 11.34 billion chickens. Then you are allowed the T4L Gusset. Note that only Clarity Stones are allowed on the Gusset. You must purchase every research that is below Wormhole Dampening 25's price, you must buy them prior to equipping the gusset, and you must buy all Wormhole Dampening levels with no common research discount event.
Z-ACRE (Zeiram's rules for All Common Research Enlightenment)
No formalised rules have been written as the challenge is impossible for now due to the EB requirement of roughly 1U (Naked Vendafarmer II). However, ZeiramX's messages and past challenges suggest the following:
- No Artifacts whatsoever
- Timeline Splicing must be bought at full cost, with no discount event.
All completion number data is as of the 11th of June, 2024. Data taken from the Main Egg, Inc discord server, and the Cluckingham Palace coop server for Hellkea.
Arc-EnD (Arcardion's Final Enlightenment Challenge)
The goal of this challenge is to complete both the Nobel Prize in Animal Husbandry (NaH) and All Common Research Enlightenment (ACRE) in a single run in the fastest time possible using artifacts but WITHOUT switching out stones from artifacts.
The challenge will require, at a minimum, a legendary Chalice, Necklace, Light of Eggendil and three legendary Gusset's with a mixture of 10 Clarity Stone's and 8 Life Stone's. This loadout can be found here, swapping the Gusset (not the stones) as needed.
The ideal loadout will require a second legendary Light of Eggendil, a legendary Book of Basan, Tier 4 Ankh, Necklace, Cube, and Lunar Totem with another 12 Clarity Stone's and 5 Prophecy Stone's. This loadout can be found here, swapping for a Totem with T4 Clarity Stones as needed, and a Cube with T4 Clarity Stones when needing to purchase research.
Players who want to bring a legendary drone income set will require 10 Clarity Stone's. This loadout can be found here. An argument can be made for swapping the Rainstick with a Vial.
This challenge is currently not possible to complete legitimately due to its artifact requirements.
Appearance[]
The Enlightenment Egg is a pure gold egg with a white edge. The inside is dark gold and contains a stylized depiction of The Tree of Life, the center of the structure covered by a yellow glow. It is visually similar to many illustrations of a Bodhi Tree and Yggdrasil. The Bodhi Tree is a better comparison because Buddhism is often associated with Enlightenment.
Trivia[]
- The Enlightenment Egg has the lowest value of any egg in the game, at a ten millionth (10-7) of a bock.
- Along with boosts being disabled and Artifacts requiring Clarity Stones to function, its value makes it the single worst egg to farm Soul Eggs on.
- Since its value is so small and it can't display more digits, it is shown as 0.00 in the game.
- Upgrading from Universe to Enlightenment will divide egg value by 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 1 sextillion, or simply 1021.
- Prior to the release of the Artifacts update in Version 1.20, the earnings bonus needed to complete the Diamond trophy was so immense (approximately 1N%) that it was not possible to obtain it legitimately. Upon the release of the update, all Enlightenment Diamond trophies, and the 10 Eggs of Prophecy reward, were removed. A letter from the developer was issued concerning this matter:
Three and a half days later, players were given the option to either restore the trophy and Eggs of Prophecy, or decline and finish the trophy legitimately. Those who kept the trophy were awarded an 'unverified' status, while those who earn it legitimately (post-Artifacts, even after originally obtaining it illegitimately) are awarded the status of 'verified'. Both statuses currently do not have any impact on neither gameplay features nor visual effects. However, according to a follow-up letter, it has been confirmed that a future update will award legitimate owners a verified symbol on the trophy, which can be assumed to be solely cosmetic:
- In the Egg, Inc. Discord server, the first player to complete the Enlightenment Diamond trophy after the release of the Artifacts update was @samidaly (455034527329288192), having posted their completion screenshot on May 15, 2021, although they finished three weeks earlier. Server members who have posted their completion screenshot are awarded the purely cosmetic 'EnDer' (Enlightenment Diamonder) role. As of the 11th of June, 2024, there are a total of 2855 confirmed server members who have obtained the trophy. At least 94 of these members have obtained the trophy with the Standard Permit.
